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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

s. WHITE. IAINE, or ROCHESTER, new YORK.

CHECK, DRAFT, OR RECEIPT BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,776, dated November 16, 1886.

Application filed September 18. 1885. Serial No. 177,472. (Model) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SETH WHITE PAINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of receipt.

New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Check, Draft, ,and Receipt Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a check, draft, or receipt book having a permanently-attached leaf-cutter, by which a check, draft, or receipt can be quickly and neatly detached from its stub or coupon, leaving the latterin the book.

My invention consists in the combination, with a book for checks, drafts, receipts, 8rd, of a transverse cutter or straight-edge having at each end a spring-arm riveted to the bookcover; also, in the combination, with a check, draft, or receipt book having leaves and covers of equal width, said leaves being recessed or cut away on each top and bottom edge near their attachment to the covers, of a transverse cutter having arms permanently attached to the back cover of the book and lying in the recesses formed in the edges of the leaves, whereby said cutter-arms are flush with the uncut edges of the book.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved check, draft, or receipt book with cutter attached, each leaf of the book being adapted to one check, draft, or Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a book with longitudinally-divided leaves for several checks, drafts, or receipts. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a cutter or straight-edge with spring-arms adapted to be riveted to the bookcover. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of cutters designed to be pivoted to the book-cover.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the book-covers, and 2 the leaves. These covers and leaves I preferto cutaway or recess at 3 on the top and bottom edges of the stub portion. To the back cover of the book is permanently attached a cutter, 4, having a sharpened straight-edge, 5, that extends transversely across the leaves of the book at the line of demarkation between the body of the check, draft, or receipt and its coupon or stub portion. This cutter may have springarms 6, that are riveted to the back cover, as shown in Fig. 2; or the arms of the cutter may be formed with pivots 7, as shown in Fig. 4, and these pivots, as shown in Fig. 5, may be made of such length as to meetat or about the center. The cutters and their arms may be made of brass, steel, or other suitable material. arms is adapted to bear firmly on the leaves of the book, and is always in position for use as a guide and cutter in detaching a check, draft, or receipt.

The pivoted cutter, when turned down with its straight cutting-edge between the check and stub, can be used as a guide and cutter for detaching the check, and it has also an inner straight cutting-edge that may be used for disconnecting the stub from the book when said pivoted cutter is turned back.

It will be observed that the book-covers and I leaves are of equal width and are cut away or recessed at the top and bottom edges'of the stub portion. By making the leaves and covers in this way I effect a considerable saving in the cost of manufacture, and the recesses 3 in the top and bottom edges serve to receive the attaching-arms of the cutter, so they will be flush with the uucutedges of the book, thus economizing space in packing and avoiding projection of the cutter-arms beyondthe book.

In the manufacture of books with two or more checks, drafts, or receipts on each leaf, I form the leaves with longitudinal'slits 8 between the several checks, drafts, receipts, or

'other printed forms, and these slits 8 may, if

The straight-edged cutter with springalso avoid the expense of providing the transverse cutter with a right-angled arm, as sometimes hitherto employed for this purpose. is obvious that the cost of slitting the leaves of the book at the time of manufacture is much less than would be required to provide the firmly across the longitudinal slits Sin such a cutter attached to the back cover of the book,

wayas to prevent accidental tearing of the stubs.

What I claim is 1. The combination, with a check, draft, or

with its cutting-edge across the leaves and its attaching'arnis lying in the recessed edges of the book, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in receipt book, of a transverse cutter having presence of two witnesses. spring-arms fastened to the back of said book, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a check, draft, or receipt book having the top and bottom edges of its stub portion recessed, of a transverse S. WHITE PAIN E.

Witnesses:

E. S. DARROW, S. O. GANIARD. 

